{"id":34483,"date":"2021-08-29T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34483"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:48:20","slug":"install-mate-1-26-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/install-mate-1-26-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install MATE Desktop 1.26 in Ubuntu 20.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The MATE desktop 1.26 now is available to install via the official Ubuntu PPA!<\/b><\/p>\n

UPDATE 2024: This PPA is so far only for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, since Ubuntu 22.04\/24.04 has MATE 1.26 in system repository.<\/b>
\nThe lightweight MATE desktop environment 1.26 was released a week ago. It features initial wayland support, do not disturb applet, and many core applications updates!<\/p>\n

The Ubuntu MATE developer team finally made a new Ubuntu PPA<\/a> contains the packages for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, MATE 1.26 will be there in the main repositories.<\/p>\n

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Install MATE 1.26 via PPA:<\/h3>\n

Firstly, search for and open terminal from start menu, or simply press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When terminal opens, run following commands one by one.<\/p>\n

1. Add MATE PPA.<\/h4>\n

To add the official PPA, copy and paste the command below into terminal and hit Enter.<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev\/fresh-mate<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no visual feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Install \/ Upgrade to MATE 1.26:<\/h4>\n
If you’re running MATE 1.24, simply run command in terminal to upgrade it:<\/p>\n
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade<\/pre>\n
or launch Software Updater<\/b> and install all the available system updates:<\/p>\n
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For non-mate users, it’s possible to run this command to get the desktop environment:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment<\/pre>\n
Uninstall MATE 1.26:<\/h3>\n
For any reason, it easy to downgrade the desktop to the stock version by purging the Ubuntu PPA. To do so, run command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev\/fresh-mate<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The MATE desktop 1.26 now is available to install via the official Ubuntu PPA! UPDATE 2024: This PPA is so far only for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, since Ubuntu 22.04\/24.04 has MATE 1.26 in system repository. The lightweight MATE desktop environment 1.26 was released a week ago. It features initial wayland support, do not disturb applet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1035],"class_list":["post-34483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-mate"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}